
Troubles triggered by them will occur at the intervals of a few years will go on for quite some time, ie 1.5yrs at least and generally have a deep impact on you. Rahu Ketu in typical transits from birth Moon will create issues once in a while as they take about 1.5yrs to transit a sign. Thus everyone should be careful during typical Rahu/ Ketu transits and this is is applicable for all ascendants. Rahu and Ketu are going to be malefic for all ascendants unless they become functional yogkarak (post here). Now let’s combine all this and critically examine the basic list of the malefic planets for the ascendant signs. And the slowest is Saturn at 2.5yrs per sign. The Nodes Rahu and Ketu at 1.5yrs per sign. Then come Mercury, Venus and Mars who spend variable periods from 1- 6 months in a sign. The fastest moving graha is the Moon with 2.25 days in one sign. I wrote on the speeds of the planets (post here). Yet another layer for analysing their transits is this – Ketu gives pleasing results transiting in the 3 rd 6 th and 11 th house from the birth Moon.Rahu gives pleasing results transiting in the 3 rd 6 th and 11 th house from the birth Moon.Saturn transits in the 3 rd 6 th and 11 th sign from the birth Moon sign are auspicious, rest all will give stress.Jupiter transiting 1 st 3 rd 4 th 6 th 8 th 10 th and 12 th from the birth Moon sign is not going to give very favourable or supportive results, rest all are going to give pleasing results.Mars gives favourable results when transiting only in the 6 th 8 th and 11 th from the birth Moon.Venus gives difficulty when he transits the 6 th 7 th 10 th houses from the birth Moon sign.

Mercury gives favourable results transiting in the 6 th 8 th 10 th and 11 th houses from the birth Moon.Moon gives troublesome results especially when transiting the 8 th and 12 th sign from the birth Moon.Sun gives favourable results when transiting only in the 3 rd 4 th 5 th 11 th from the birth Moon sign.But by and large this following list is a good general baseline. This will be modified as per the individuals chart, the nakshatra involved, the Ashtakvarga, the vedh etc. Not discussing these conditions here, it would get too long). Moorti nirnay is a part of these conditions. Our texts say that the planets transiting the following signs counted from the birth Moon sign will broadly give auspicious/ inauspicious results (subject to conditions. Now we add another layer to our understanding – And these three planets are going to give more malefic results. For the Pisces ascendant, all the three dushamsthan are the mool-trikon signs of Sun, Saturn and Venus so these people will face significant troubles from all these three sources of turmoil.Venus cannot be a malefic even if he owns the 6th house as he is the ascendant lord. Here, obviously the lords of these two houses, Jupiter and Mars, are more malefic. For Taurus ascendant, the 8th and 12th houses will create more significant problems than the 6th house.Mars is the ascendant lord so is not going to be overtly malefic. Also Mercury can create more deep seated trouble, than Jupiter. The other two dusham-sthan will be relatively less problematic in life. For Aries, of the 3 duhsham-sthan, the 6 th will have more potential to create the most trouble in life.So one level of understanding this list is this – So I have added Mercury for Cancer ascendant and Jupiter for Libra ascendant, this you have to judge as per the individual chart. The 3rd house is a bit typical and can go both ways if there are benefic/ malefic influences on it. We face troubles from the three dusham-sthan, the 6th the 8th and the 12th houses (wrote several posts on them use the index page or the search bar to locate them). Pisces– Sun (6 th house), Saturn (12 th house), Venus (8 th house), Rahu, Ketu.Aquarius– Moon (6 th house), Mercury (8 th house), Rahu, Ketu.Capricorn- Mercury (6 th house), Sun (8 th house), Jupiter (12 th house), Rahu, Ketu.Sagittarius– Moon (8 th house), Rahu, Ketu.Scorpio– Venus (12 th house), Rahu, Ketu.Libra– Mercury (12 th house), Rahu, Ketu (possibly Jupiter at 3 rd house).Virgo– Sun (12 th house), Mars (8 th house), Saturn (6 th house), Rahu, Ketu.Cancer– Jupiter (6 th house), Saturn ( 8 th house), Rahu, Ketu (possibly Mercury 3 rd house).Taurus- Mars (12 th house), Jupiter (8 th house), Rahu, Ketu.Aries– Mercury (6 th house), Rahu, Ketu.These planets are responsible for triggering problems, the inauspicious, unfavourable and displeasing events in your life.

I have written about the functional malefics for each ascendant (post here).
